Excel 2010 opens CS4?

When I click and drag a row in Excel 2010 to resize it, Adobe CS4 opens. I do not have macros enables in Excel and I cannot figure out what to turn off in CS. It is really annoying.
Any ideas?

Given that Excel 2010 was developed well after Adobe Photoshop CS4 was released, I'd say it sounds like a system integration problem, more likely with Excel than Photoshop, and perhaps you should take it up with Microsoft (not that such a thing is easy).
As Zeno has said, Photoshop doesn't appear to do anything out of the ordinary, save for register itself as the default application for opening certain file types.
I've been considering upgrading to Office 2010. Perhaps I'll wait a bit longer...
-Noel

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Hi everyone,
We're having some issues with clients using Windows XP and Office 2010. We have recently migrated from some Novell OES file server to a Win 2008R2 file server with DFS. When the users try to open any file from this new FS directly from Excel's "Open
file" dialog box, when they "surf" through folders in this new fs, it takes aprox. 45sec~1min to populate folders. It doesn't occur if users search files using Windows Explorer, it only occurs directly from Office apps. Neither occurs in PCs
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Thanks in advance!
Matias

Hi,
The issue may be caused by the SMB. As far as I know, Windows Xp supports SMBv1 and the Windows server 2008 R2 supports SMBv2. Thus, I recommend we try to disable SMBv2 in Windows server 2008 R2 to test:
To enable or disable SMBv2 on the SMB server, configure the following registry key:
Registry subkey:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\LanmanServer\Parameters
Registry entry: SMB2
REG_DWORD: 0 = Disabled
REG_DWORD: 1 = Enabled
Default: 1 = Enabled
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2696547/en-us
Note: Backup the registry key before you modify.
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Excel 2010 opens document but it is not visible?

I have one user that when he opens up excel files most of the times they aren't visible. (On occation they are visible.)
When we try to preview the documents in the printing dialog to are shown correctly.
The documents are located on the network, a Small business server 2008.
When we log on to the same computer (Win7 Prof) as another user it works fine. (We have reinstalled the computer)
It also works when the "problem" user is log on to another computer and opens the documents.
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Hi de0021,
Could you tell me what’s the meaning of the excel file is not visible? If it was opened as shown in the following figure without spreadsheet? Or it is a normal spreadsheet just without contents in the cells. And did you get any pop up message bar from file
when you open it?
You said the same file with other user’s account worked fine.
I suggest to check if the permission of the user’s account on the network is different from other normal users’ accounts. If yes, try to modify this user’s permission and try again.
Or this issue might be caused by DDE in excel. If you use Excel 2010 you might get an error when opening Excel or double clicking an Excel file that says “There Was a Problem Sending the Command to the Program”. Check if the user checked the checkbox “Ignore
other applications that use Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE)”, as shown in the following figure.
If possible could you take a screenshot and upload it so that we can get more accurate solutions to this problem. I am glad to help and forward to your reply.
Hope it’s helpful.
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Cannot open an Excel 2010 workbook by using Internet Explorer 8.0 in sharepoint 2010

When am trying to open a Microsoft Office Excel 2010 workbook from a Web site by browsing to the location with Microsoft Internet Explorer 8.0, you cannot open the file. Instead, you receive the following messages:
Some files can harm your computer. If the file information below looks suspicious, or you do not fully trust the source, do not open this file.
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Ramesh

Hi Ramesh,
Please install the hotfix package and test the issue again:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2817576/en-us
In addition, try uncheck the option “confirm open after download” per:
http://jritmeijer.wordpress.com/2006/08/20/some-files-can-harm-your-computer-if-the-file-information-looks-suspicious-or-you-do-not-fully-trust-the-source-do-not-open-the-file/
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Windows 7 - Open Excel 2010 in separate window

Setup:
Windows 7 Ent.
2 monitors in extended desktop mode
Office 2010
Opening Excel Files from multiple sources (Outlook 2010, Desktop, OneNote 2010, etc.)
New laptop with 12GB of RAM
i7 Quad Proc.
Problem:
By default, all of my Excel books open in the same window of Excel. I open lots of sheets that need visual side-by-side comparison. I want every every Excel book I open to have its own Excel window. It doesn't necessarily need to be it's
own running instance of the binary, but it's own separate window that I can minimize, maximize, resize, or close independently of the other Excel windows.
I've tried the registry fixes for DDE. I've tried the "Ignore other applications with DDE" option in Excel. Both of those solutions give the desired multi-window result, but both break my ability to open spread sheets from OneNote and
Outlook. The error for OneNote is "OneNote has encountered a problem and cannot complete this operation", when I double click an embedded Excel file.
Question:
Is it possible to get Excel to open a new window for each file without disabling DDE or breaking my ability to open embeddede spreadsheets from other applications like Outlook and OneNote? The "Put Excel into windowed mode and drag it across multiple
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Not necessarily an ideal solution, but the only way I've found with Excel 2010 is to open a second instance of Excel, which will then allow you to move it to the second screen and either open your spreadsheets from there, or drop and drop them into
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when the file can or cannot be displayed by the Excel Open button.
I am using Windows 7 64bit along with Office 2010 64bit. Windows has current service packs and updates. There are perhaps 200 - 400 Excel files in the My documents folder. Some of them are .XLS and some are .XLSX.
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Hi,
Do you mean that you can't find the Excel file when you click Excel->Open->My Documents folder?
Do you use the other folder path to test?
Dose the issue occur in other Office suits (Word, Power Point)?
Do you get some error message, like "Windows cannot find 'FilePath\FileName', Make sure you typed the name correctly, and then try again."?
Please try the following methods:
Method1:
1. Go to the registry. Click START, and in the RUN command line type REGEDIT and hit ENTER or click OK.
2. Navigate to the following key: HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Excel.Sheet.8\Shell\Open\Command
3. Double click on the (Default) instance over to the right. Right now this probably says something like:
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office14\EXCEL.EXE /dde
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C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office14\EXCEL.EXE /e "%1"
4. Navigate to the following key: HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Excel.Sheet.12\Shell\Open\Command
Again, double click the (Default) entry to the right and change
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office14\EXCEL.EXE /dde
to
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office14\EXCEL.EXE /e "%1"
Note : Please backup the registry key before you modify.
Method2:
Click the File tab, and then click Options.
Click Advanced, scroll down to the General
section, and then clear the Ignore other applications that use Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE) check box in the
General area.
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Outlook 2010 opening excel files in grey exel sheet/not correctly

Hi,
i have a user with a brand new install of Windows 7 64X and Office 2010 32X. The user is having the issue of when trying to open excel spread sheets from outlook that they open in a grey window and nothing in it. See attachedpicture
The user can preview the file fine in outlook, and if they save the file and open it it works fine. but when trying to open directly from outlook it opens in a grey window.
I have tired disabling all protected views in excel and word. i have removed all add ons from excel and outlook. and have run outlook in safe mode and still same results.
i have repaired office, and removed it and reinstalled it to no luck. I have found a work around, if i get outlook to start as "Run as administrator" then its works.
Any Help i would be greatful
Kind Regards
SF

Hi,
The most common cause is that Excel has been configured to ignore other applications. This is an option that is disabled by default but can be enabled to isolate the Excel working environment. When the option is enabled, you can only open Excel attachments
from within Excel itself.
To disable this option you can do the following:
Open Excel, click File -> Options -> Advanced-> General -> Untick "Ignore other applications that use Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE)" -> OK.
After setting this option, close Excel. Open the attachment in Outlook to check the result.
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Can not open multiple excel 2003 and excel 2007 files in excel 2010 - message says they may be a security risk and wants to do a scan

We use about 20 excel files to build a consolidated financial statement for our company. Some of the files were built when the computers were running 2003 and some when we had 2007. We are being upgraded to Windows 7 with Office 2010. In
2007, we would simply highlight all the files in a folder, right click, and open. Once they had all refreshed for new data, we would close them all. Now with Excel 2010, we've highlighted all the files, but when we right click, we get a message
that says some files may present an internet security risk. Then it ask if we want to open anyway. If we say yes, we get a box that asks us to scan the files. We've done a scan, but at the end it still doesn't open the files. If we
say no, it does nothing. Either way, we're not getting the files open except to open them 1 by 1. We're not sure how to get rid of this...any suggestions?

In Excel 2010 setting those documents as trusted documents, or adding the folder containing as a trusted location may do the trick for you. There's a full description of what it does here
http://blogs.technet.com/b/office2010/archive/2009/09/28/trusted-documents.aspx but if you go into File, Options, Trust Center, Trust Center Settings..., and then Trusted Locations, you'll see the list of currently configured file paths that are considered
trusted on your machine.
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From your description, I understand that you open EXCEL 2010 SP2 32-bit slowly in Windows 7 64bit.
Try to start Excel in safe mode. Then, open the Excel file.
Start the Excel program in safe mode
1.       Click Start, point to All Programs, and then point to Microsoft Office.
2.        Press and hold the CTRL key, and then click the Microsoft Excel.
If the problem does not occur in the safe mode, this issue might be related to some third-party add-ins in the Excel program, we can try to disable them.
Normally, you could do the following to disable the conflict add-ins in your Excel program:
Disable add-ins
Click File menu, click Options > Add-in, click Go button in the Manage: Com-in Add.
Check if there are any add-ins, clear the checkbox to disable them.
Close the Office program and restart it.
Add one check back each time to the list of Add-In, restart the Office program, and repeat the above procedure. Once the issue reappears again, we can determine which add-in causes this problem and then disable it.
Please take your time to try the suggestions and let me know the results at your earliest convenience. If anything is unclear or if there is anything I can do for you, please feel free to let me know.
Is the performance also slow when you trying to open?
At this time, we can also try to test this issue in the clean boot mode.
Test in Clean boot Mode
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Let’s disable all startup items and third party services when booting. This method will help us determine if this issue is caused by a loading program or service. Please perform the following steps:
1.       Click the Start Button type "msconfig" (without quotation marks) in the Start Search box, and then press Enter.
           Note: If prompted, please click Continue on the User Account Control (UAC) window.
2.        Click the "Services" tab, check the "Hide All Microsoft Services" box and click "Disable All" (if it is not gray).
3.       Click the "Startup" tab, click "Disable All" and click "OK".
Then, restart computer. When the "System Configuration Utility" window appears, please check the "Don't show this message or launch the System Configuration Utility when Windows starts" box and click OK.
Note: Temporarily disabling the Startup Group only prevents the startup programs from loading at startup. This should not affect the system or other programs. We may still manually run these programs later.

Excel 2010 - Can't Save File Becasue It's Opened By Another User

Hi All,
I'm using excel 2010, I can create an excel doc, update it, save it on the network, then close it. Then go out of the folder its saved in, go back in and open the file but it flags up as read only as its 'opened by another user'.
I can confirm 100% that no one else has this file open.
This affects multiple users, I have a feeling this may be caused by an update but don't have anything solid to back that theory up.
All users who have this problem are running windows 7 Pro machines, all domain joined.
Can anyone offer any suggestions?

Hi,
Please try the following methods:
Methods1:
Turn off the Details Pane shown at the bottom of Windows Explorer. Go to Organize -> Layout -> Details Pane. That fixes the first problem.
Turn off “Show pop-up description for folder and desktop items” Click on Tools -> Folder Options. In the box that opens up, click on the View tab. Scroll down the list to “Show pop-up description for folder and desktop items” and clear
the checkbox and then click OK. This fixes the second problem.
Turn off Preview Pane. Go to Organize -> Layout -> Preview Pane. This fixes number 3.
Methods2:
Add the following registry keys:
Key: HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{993BE281-6695-4BA5-8A2A-7AACBFAAB69E}
Name: EnableShareDenyNone
Type: REG_DWORD
Value: 1
Key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{993BE281-6695-4BA5-8A2A-7AACBFAAB69E}
Name: EnableShareDenyNone
Type: REG_DWORD
Value: 1
For more detail information, please refer to the following links:
http://blogs.technet.com/b/the_microsoft_excel_support_team_blog/archive/2012/05/14/the-definitive-locked-file-post.aspx
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/942146/en-us
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Excel 2010; Two file opened in a single instance with two different windows... Is it possible?

Hello
I'm using Excel 2010
I need to open a new Excel file to be display on a 2' monitor. The new file need to be under the same instance has my main Excel file to prevent problem with a special dll collection that I'm using.
I need to have both file in a separate window
Is it possible?
Excuse my English
Martin

Hi Martin,
Open two excel file in one excel instance, display them to different windows.
Please try the methods listed in the thread below:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/6ba32569-19a0-4b45-806f-9a42258bdb5f/how-to-open-two-excel-files-in-multiple-monitors-in-windows-7?forum=excel
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Wind

Excel 2010 file opens in Microsfot Office Workbook 97 only on one machine

We have a shared Excel 2010 file that 4 people use. For the 3 users it opens in Excel 2010 but for the 4th user it opens in Microsoft Office Workbook 97. Why does it not open in Excel 2010 like it does for the rest? How do I get it to open correctly for
the 4th person?

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Errors opening Excel 2007 spreadsheets in Excel 2010

When I try to open spreadsheets created in Excel 2007 with Excel 2010, I get the error: "Excel found unreadable contenct in 'file name'. Do you want to recover the contents of this workbook? If you trust the source of this workbook, click
Yes". Then a Repairs dialog box comes up saying: "Excel completed file level validation and repair. Some parts of this workbook may have been repaired or discarded.    Removed Part: Print options." File then opens fine.
We receive Excel 2007 from various sources. One of my problem is that we are just starting to migrate people to Windows 7 and Office 2010, with most people still on Office XP. The file format converter for Excel 2002/2003 does not work with these
Excel 2007 files. The other problem is that we have macros that are used to open Excel files and import data into other Excel files. Pretty hard to modify these macros to allow for some files that are going to pop up this error, and others that
do not.
What is causing this problem, and what fix is available? We have asked that people save the Excel files in Excel 97-03 format before sending to us, with mixed results.

Hi,
Thank you for using Excel IT Pro Discussions forum.
Are you using Office 2010 RTM version? If it is trial version or beta version, I suggest upgrading it to the RTM version.
First, please check if this KB article helps:
Error message when you try to open a workbook in Excel 2007: "Excel found unreadable content in Book_Name"
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929766
Note: The steps are for Excel 2007. The steps in Excel 2010 are similar.
If the problem persists, let’s also check the following settings in Excel 2010.
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1.
In Excel 2010, click File > Options > Trust Center > File block settings.
2.
Check the checkboxes before:
Excel 2007 and later Wordbooks and Templates
Excel 2007 and later Macro-Enabled Workbooks and Templates
Excel 2007 and later Add-in Files
Excel 2007 and later Binary Workbooks
Then, try to open the Excel 2007 file in Excel 2010 and check the results again.
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Word + Excel 2010 - Showing 'another user' on opening a file

Hi,
Bit of a odd question I would imagine but its quite a critical issue for us due to the nature of our work. All our employees have the latest Dell machines with Windows XP Pro and Office 2010 installed ... now we have a series of map drives (about 12) each
having over 500,000 documents in (across various directories). Now when a user opens a document either in Word or Excel it goes ready only and produces the 'document can only be opened in read only' message.
Now this is all normal, the bit that confuses me is 90% of the time it says 'document in use by another user' ... and 10% of the time, it will actually say the user who is in the document (using their logged in username) ...
In short, what I'm getting at is, how can I make office applications, namely word and excel say who is in the file, rather than 'another user'. This used to work perfectly in Office 2003 but since the upgrade to 2010 it's stopped.
Thanks
Mike

There is a public blog on file locking issues (http://blogs.technet.com/b/the_microsoft_excel_support_team_blog/archive/2012/05/14/the-definitive-locked-file-post.aspx).
I would suggest the following:
If you are seeing problems where the file is locked when double clicking from Windows Explorer, but the files open up correctly when opened in Excel or Word, do the following:
Turn off the Preview Pane, Details Pane and pop ups that show information about file and desktop items
This is a problem that has been reported to affect Windows 7 clients only, not Windows XP. The problem here may have something to do with the Windows Explorer in Windows 7. We are currently investigating this further and will post more information as it is
available.
In a Windows Explorer window, do the following:
1. Right click on the Start Button.
2. Click 'Open Windows Explorer'.
3. At the top left click Organize > Layout
4. Uncheck Details Pane and Preview Pane.
5. On a Windows menu, click on Tools > Folder Options. In the box that opens up, click on the View tab. Scroll down the list to
“Show pop-up description for folder and desktop items” and clear the checkbox and then click OK.
If you are seeing issues where the wrong user name is showing up, there is a known bug on that and a fix:
In cases where the wrong user name is displayed in the file lock dialog
Sometimes where it says 'another user' it has the name of someone that didn't open the file or it has no name at all. Just a big ' ' where a name ought to be. Fear not, there is a fix for this problem. The flavor depends on
whether you have Excel 2010 or Excel 2007. The below KB Articles contain hotfixes that address several issues, not just the file locked issue. But in the dialog of the article you will see this as one of the problem descriptions:
Assume that you have an .xls file that is protected by Information Rights Management (IRM) on a network share. When you open the file in Excel 2007, a File In Use dialog box appears. However, the dialog box does not display the
correct name of the user who locked the file. Therefore, you cannot edit the file.
Understand that these fixes don't make the File in Use dialog go away, they just correct the problem of showing bogus user name information on the dialog itself.
Excel 2007 -
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2598133
Excel 2010 -
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2598143
Will Buffington
Microsoft Excel Support

MS Excel 2010 takes long to open with Hyperion Smartview 11

Hi,
the MS Excel 2010 takes about 20 sec to open a blank sheet when is with a user without Internet access. It is automatically open with Internet access. This behaviour started after the installation of Hyperion Smartview.
Can you help?
Ant K.

I've never worked with Hyperion Smart view.
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